Oh thats just great then, after everything the Iraqis have been through recently the US invites in the mortal enemies of their Kurdish allies in Northern Iraq to help "maintain the peace". What total ignorance !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some men are drawn to oceans, they cannot breathe unless the air is scented with a salty mist. Others are drawn to land that is flat, and the air is sullen and is leaden as August. My people were drawn to mountains- Earl Hamner Jr.

You friends in the UK are just a bit better off than we are since our guy is leading the way and your guy is just going along for the ride. Remember that after 9/11/2001 Bush referred to a "crusade" against terrorism while trying to get support from the Islamic nations of the world. It should not surprise anyone that he wouldn't know that the Turks and the Kurds don't get along. The only place outside the US that he man was ever in before becoming President was Mexico. He has no concept of what goes on outside Crawford, TX unless it's connected to oil. I am ashamed to admit that nearly half of my fellow citizens voted for the man. Almost as many as voted for Al Gore.

You friends in the UK are just a bit better off than we are since our guy is leading the way and your guy is just going along for the ride. Remember that after 9/11/2001 Bush referred to a "crusade" against terrorism while trying to get support from the Islamic nations of the world. It should not surprise anyone that he wouldn't know that the Turks and the Kurds don't get along. The only place outside the US that he man was ever in before becoming President was Mexico. He has no concept of what goes on outside Crawford, TX unless it's connected to oil. I am ashamed to admit that nearly half of my fellow citizens voted for the man. Almost as many as voted for Al Gore.

HPDAnd most of us UK citizens are appalled that our country has 'gone along for the ride'...

Some of us demonstrated against the war... some of still continue to make our views known.

I support our troops, ie I believe that now we ARE there, we should ensure that the troops are properly equipped and if possible, be protected... and that their families should be well taken care of at home.

However, I always felt this was an ill-conceived venture - and that without a UN mandate OR confirmed evidence of WMD we should never have gone to war.

Our PM has lied, twisted and evaded the truth about WMD... He and his cronies in the Cabinet have conspired at the death of an honest scientist, Dr Kelly. Shame on us all for this kind of posturing in the name of the 'war against terrorism'...

BTW, don't know if it has made the news on your side of the pond - but it has been discovered that a mass mailout of letters purporting to be from US troops from the Second Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infanty Regiment, stationed in Kirkuk, Iraq were actually written by PR people - and that in some cases, the troops who supposedly 'wrote' the letters to their local newspapers - had no idea what their relatives were talking about when asked why they had written to the newspapers!

Seemingly it came to light when TWO identical letters were sent (supposedly by two different soldiers) to the same newspaper in Washington State.....

The letters stress how well the troops are being received, and how they are winning 'hearts and minds'...

The Commanding Officer of the 503rd AB confessed that he dreamed up the letter writing publicity campaign and got senior staff to draft it... his namae is Lt Colonel Dominic Caraccilo, and he said 'We are doing a good job here and we want the folks back home to know that'.He insisted his instructions were that soldiers should only sign the letter if they agreed with its sentiments!

I think the old adage 'be sure your sins will find you out' fits this case, don't you?